Can I have a cup of tea please?

SL LLG started to feel the forlorness of the great bachelorhood towering over him and before he knew it, he had proceeded to call the most 讲义气 of his friend 席 for a night chat - the indispensable WL LLG. After all, this luminary shares the same Myer Briggs personality as Oprah Winfrey, and any exigency for a listening ear is always obligated.

The first question posed to SL LLG during our consultation session was, "Are you single?"- to which SL LLG gave the most inexcrutiable look that deserved nothing less than pity, before nodding his head in reluctant resignance.

"Then you must be ready to mingle!"

Shilpa Shetty once famously told the Queen of Britain, "I am single and ready to mingle"









Grateful for the company, SL LLG treated me to Chai tea at Coffeebean, which was a refreshing brew reminding me of the Far East spices that were highly sought after by the East India Company. But that was many years ago and if I had been Raffles making my voyage to the Far East, I guess I would ask for a head and shoulder massage in Bali before another corporeal experience at the beach. Anyway....

We spoke of how the commencement of work and the financial independence that accompanied it could leave you thinking... really thinking about your priorities, your desiratums, your reconciliation with failures, etc.. and they could lead you to heave a sigh of "O' how mundane life is" or "What a long journey ahead to do all these". I guess that is the reason why people change because they realise that what they hold dearly before are not quite as important.

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An Oprah trivial: Oprah was interviewing a vegetarian on one of her shows in 1996 when she commented that what she heard "just stopped me cold from eating another burger". The price of beef dropped over 10% the following day.

A WL LLG trivial: WL LLG had such an elephatine memory that he could pull out details of past confabulations held with SL LLG with such great accuracy that he left SL LLG cold when he recited all of the things ad verbatim that SL LLG thought WL LLG would have forgotten.